Stress Reduction Techniques and Anxiety: Therapeutic and Neuroendocrine Effects
Completed · Phase 4
Conditions studied: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
In brief
Current therapies for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have limited effectiveness. This study measures the efficacy of two different approaches to reducing anxiety and stress. One approach uses education, nutrition, exercise, and time management training, and another uses mindfulness meditation and yoga, which is taught as part of the Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course, an 8-week manualized mindfulness intervention. We hypothesize that the two approaches will reduce anxiety in individuals with GAD in different ways. We will measure changes in stress hormones associated with these changes.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01033851
- Run by
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- People needed
- 89
- Starts
- 2008-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2014-06-04
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adults with generalized anxiety disorder
- medically healthy
You may not qualify if…
- substance abuse
- history of other psychiatric diagnoses such as psychosis, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, PTSD
- use of certain types of psychotherapy, meditation training, yoga
- pregnant or lactating women
Where it is running
- Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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